In this paper, we present a novel distributed certification system in which signing a certificate needs the collaboration of a fixed ratio of the nodes, hence a varying number of n...
The availability is often used to measure how well a system can provide the service continuously. The measures of availability for a single computer and for multiple computers are ...
Kang Chen, Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Meiming She...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing offers new opportunities for building highly distributed data systems. Unlike client-server computing, P2P can operate without central coordination and...
The advent and popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has enabled access to a variety of semi-structured data and, when available, this data follows some common XML schema. On the...
This paper describes a new protocol for authentication in Peer-to-Peer systems. The protocol has been designed to meet specialized requirements of P2P systems, such as lack of dir...